> The courts had not found Hans guilty of any crime, but unless he chose to appeal the verdict, he was required to turn himself in to Henrietta Schimmelmann wit

> The courts had not found Hans guilty of any crime, but unless he chose to appeal the verdict, he was required to turn himself in to Henrietta Schimmelmann within 15 days. The court does not seem to have noticed that, as a strategy for containing a runaway, this plan left something to be desired. It’s entirely possible that the court had noticed exactly that, and spelled it out as clearly as it was legally able without actually writing ‘here, have a fifteen day head start!’